{"id":211003,"date":"2022-05-09T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=211003"},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T09:17:45","slug":"the-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/the-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9 May 2022 \u2013 <em>Last month\u2019s floods that devastated <\/em><em>KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa demonstrated how a troublesome and toxic stew of bad politics and governance, endless official deceit connected with human-made and natural catastrophes, has cost billions of damage and hundreds of human lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The rains &#8211; the rains came without any warning.<br \/>\nBreaking through the trees, the valleys,<br \/>\nWe were driven to mourning.<br \/>\nTaking off roots, buildings and human lives<br \/>\nEyes cannot look at the devastation\u2019s<br \/>\nPity us, is this a natural manifestation?<br \/>\nJust tokens of darkness.<br \/>\nAlmost like a raging madness!<br \/>\nThe floods have swept over us,<br \/>\nNo more green meadows \u2026<br \/>\nOnly fearful shadows!<br \/>\nThe raging floods have destroyed<br \/>\nThe beautiful land we once enjoyed!!<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 May 2022 \u2013 Last month\u2019s floods, which devastated KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[401,1816,868,1218],"class_list":["post-211003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-environment","tag-floods","tag-poetry","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}